President - Long Term Acute Care

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Company: Mosaic Life Care

Location: Saint Joseph, MO 64506

Description:

Details
  • President - Long Term Acute Care
  • LTACH
  • Full Time Status
  • Day Shift

Summary
  • The purpose of this role is for the overall management and coordination of the Medicare-certified long term acute care hospital ("LTACH"). This position will oversee the day-to-day operations and direction of the LTACH. This position has a reporting relationship to both the COO, Board of Directors and the Governing Board for overseeing the day to day operations. This position shall also serve as a member of the senior management team of the Health System to assure effective coordination between sister hospitals.This position will provide strategic direction, business planning, goal development and leadership to assure the service line accomplishes its financial, service, quality and growth goals. This position accomplishes this through highly effective relationships with direct reports, peers, medical staff, and vendors and consultants. All LTACH operations are carried out in alignment with Heartland Health's Mission/Vision/Values and Strategic Priorities.
  • This position works under the direction of the Governing Board and is employed by Heartland Long Term Acute Care Hospital.

Duties
  • Vision. The Administrator articulates a vision for the future direction of the service, and assures that every decision made advances toward that vision. This leader is knowledgeable of national trends and applies this knowledge to benefit the organization; anticipates changes that will be required to realize the vision; and guides transformation in a systematic, inspirational manner. This leader also develops ways to grow and expand the services-assuring an appropriate combination of programs and services to meet the continuum of care needs for the regional service area. The Administrator is a thought leader and expert regarding his or her area and contributes to the annual strategic planning discussion.
  • Building Partnerships - A primary role for the Administrator is to build highly effective partnerships with key stakeholders of the organization. The Administrator works with peers, executives, medical staff, organizational leaders and caregivers in staff functions such as finance, quality, human resources, education, marketing and communications and technology services to accomplish service line goals. The Administrator also develops trusted relationships with vendors and consultants to support LTACH initiatives. This is accomplished through a combination of pro-active rounding approaches and informal relationship-building.
  • Developing Talent. The Administrator accomplishes his or her goals through effective selection, development and coaching of the leadership team. The Administrator continually seeks and applies best practice approaches in providing feedback through formal monthly and annual performance reviews and regular informal conversations. The Administrator uses critical conversations techniques to retain and grow high performers; to provide clarity and development for middle performers; and to improve or deselect low performers-and advocates the use of this approach to assure consistency of development and improvement of front-line care givers in the service line. The Administrator sees leader, medical staff, and front-line caregiver development as an integral obligation and function of his or her role. The Administrator understands his or her role as a model for HEART behaviors.
  • Performance Management. The Administrator leads, administers and improves all aspects related to performance outcomes for the LTACH-assuring achievement of top decile performance in quality, safety and stakeholder satisfaction and lower quartile performance in cost. The Administrator collaborates with the COO and the board to establish annual and ongoing measures of LTACH performance and assures alignment to the organizational balanced scorecard measures. This leader understands the disciplines of performance measurement and management, and uses disciplined high-accountability approaches to accomplish goals. The Administrator engages direct report leaders, front-line caregivers and medical staff in understanding, prioritizing and deploying best practice performance improvement methodologies to assure top performance outcomes.
  • Quality and Safety. The Administrator is a key advocate to assure services by department leaders and staff are carried out with the highest attention to quality and safety. This leader clearly communicates the national agenda for patient safety and transparency. The Administrator sets priorities for process improvement, evaluates organizational structure and staffing to assure quality and safety is attained, and assures quality and safety performance meets regulatory and organizational standards. This leader participates in the RCA process and risk reduction strategies for the LTACH. The Administrator is highly involved in sponsoring and participating on teams to prioritize and resolve quality and safety issues, and assures that all units and multidisciplinary teams have aligned their work with the overall quality plan, and are clear on priorities and resources.
  • Administrative Function. The Administrator works with financial analysts and decision support personnel to create and monitor capital and operational budgets for the LTACH. The Administrator works with, medical staff, DON and others to define equipment, supply, labor and other resource needs, and helps prioritize among competing needs. The Administrator also assures information technology meets the clinical and decision support needs. This leader also prioritizes capital investments for the LTACH in collaboration with the COO/CFO.
  • Evidence-Based Leadership. The Administrator continually gathers information from a variety of sources: patients, family members, caregivers, leaders, medical staff and others to identify critical issues and problems and to develop breakthrough solutions. This leader continually seeks knowledge related to best-practice, evidence-based leadership approaches and engages others through teaching, feedback and encouragement. The Administrator navigates through difficult, complex situations-helping to resolve ambiguity and inspire others to their best performance.
  • Other. The Administrator participates on a variety of multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams and committees to represent the service line and to contribute the broader organizational outcomes. The Administrator attends national conferences and education to continuously develop own capabilities and to maintain knowledge of national trends.

Qualifications
  • All required education is a minimum requirement. Higher levels of education are acceptable. Bachelor's Degree in Administration, Business or a health-related field required. Master's Degree preferred.
  • Five to ten year's progressive management experience and responsibility in the health care industry with senior management experience in a managed care/insurance organization. Prior experience and proficiency in health plan personnel, budget administration, and operations management. Strong communication and interpersonal skills. The incumbent will possess a set of skills including, but not limited to team leadership, conflict resolution, listening skills, the ability to select and develop a competent team leader staff, and the flexibility to meet the changing needs of the enterprise. The successful incumbent will maintain skills in process improvement and change management through knowledge of the clinical and technical skills needed to meet high quality outcomes.

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